Gold Dust

The sacred and the profane. A fourteen-year-old girl in a brothel who radiates goodness. A mysterious protector who appears when evil draws too close. Some love stories aren't just romantic, they're acts of salvation.

Shannon, a boy training to be a Yellow Pages salesman, walks into Mona's Playhouse and discovers Esmé, a girl whose spiritual maturity defies both her age and her circumstances. Living in her grandmother's Nevada brothel, Esmé spends her time transcribing her Great-Grandmother Ida’s journal about a desecrated Mormon temple in the nearby ghost town of Gold Dust. Despite the corruption that surrounds her, Esmé possesses an inexplicable goodness, just as her Great-Grandmother Ida had before her, an aura that keeps predatory men at bay. When Shannon's mentor Garth, a man devoid of conscience, attempts to violate that protection, something otherworldly happens, confronting Garth with an unbearable spiritual truth. Shannon and Esmé's love becomes a promise (he will return when she's sixteen), but first they must survive a night when heaven and hell wage war over their souls in a crumbling temple where altar and brothel once occupied the same sacred space. Will Shannon alone be enough to pull Esmé to saftey, or are some souls meant to be saved by forces beyond human understanding?

Gold Dust: A Love Story is one of Larry Shannon’s morally complex Magical Realism, Coming-of-Age dramas. If you like stories that blend religious symbolism, the supernatural, and love that reaches into the most unlikely of places, then you will be transported by Gold Dust.

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